Re: [gnuspeech-contact] GnuspeechSA 0.1.6

[David Roderic Hill]

Hi Felipe,

Thank you for your comment on Gnuspeech.

To have Gnuspeech speak Portugese requires a significant amount of work. First 
Monet has to have the ability to save and retrieve database files implemented 
(should be pretty straightforward). Then you have to characterise the basic 
postures of Portugese in terms of the tube radii and test them. Then you need 
to create models of Portugese intonation and rhythm and test them. Has anyone 
worked on the rhythm and intonation of Portugese? Finally you have to create a 
pronouncing dictionary, orthography-to-postures, for Portugese, with a method 
of using the dictionary to get the pronunciation of derivative words from the 
ones actually in the dictionary, and a pre-parser to deal with standard items 
like dates and numbers to ensure that they are converted into a normal 
pronounceable form. Finally you need a set of letter-to-sound rules for 
Portugese in case there are words that are not found in the dictionary or 
obtained by the derivative procedures.

Monat was designed to support such work, and it is what we used to create the 
databases for English

Similar steps are required to create the databases for any additional language 
that you want Gnuspeech to speak. There are precompiled manuals Monet and TRAcT 
manuals on my university website give insight into what we did:

http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca

The Latex source files for the manuals are on the Gnuspeech project FSF site. 
The illustrations use the Mac OSX version where screen shots are used. It took 
three of us rather less than a year to go from having no tools, to having 
created the tools, and used them to create the databases and a working system.

All good wishes.

david
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David R. Hill
Emeritus Professor
University of Calgary
Gnuspeech FSF project leader

On May 6, 2017, at 15:31 13PM, Felipe Castro wrote:

> I like this, it' s very nice!
> 
> Marcelo, have you tried GnuSpeech to speak in other languages, you seem to be 
> brazilian, just like me, so it would nice to have this "thing" speaking in 
> Portuguese...
> 
> Felipe Castro
> 
> 
> 2017-05-06 19:01 GMT-03:00 Marcelo Matuda <address@hidden>:
> Hi,
> 
> GnuspeechSA 0.1.5 has a serious (and stupid) bug in the intonation. The 
> problem is that the intonation curve is not smooth. This bug has been fixed 
> in GnuspeechSA 0.1.6. It can be downloaded at:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/mym8/gnuspeech_sa/tags
> 
> or
> 
> https://github.com/mym8/gnuspeech_sa/releases
> 
> BTW there are some synthesis examples at:
> https://mym.eng.br/gnuspeech.html
> 
> Marcelo
> 
> 
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